COURSE UNIT TITLE

: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN EUROPE AND TURKEY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 3510 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN EUROPE AND TURKEY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YUNUS EMRE ÖZER

Offered to

Public Administration (Evening)
Public Administration

Course Objective

To evaluate region, regional development and dynamics of urban and rural development
To evaluate social development theoretically and specially within the locality and to be informed about the applications of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), Regional Development Agencies considered important within development models, the concept of cross-border cooperation and cross-border cooperation projects.
To evaluate the location of Turkey within the framework of regional development dynamics, defining the future sustainable and livable cities by developing applicable models at local and national levels and monitoring international developments with the information to be acquired within the above-mentioned scope are regarded as the primary purposes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define the basic principles, concepts and international approaches pertaining to regional-rural development and cross-border cooperation
2   To gain professionalism in making a comparative analysis of Turkey and similar practices in Europe and in the world with international examples.
3   To teach strategic planning approach and the related negotiation
4   To form a student profile that is susceptible to benefiting from the project funds provided by the EU, international institutions as well as local and regional institutions
5   To gain the culture of national and international cooperation

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

HAZIRLIK - FOREIGN LANGUAGE PREPARATION CLASS

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 A General Overview of the Course and Introduction
2 Regional Development and Social Development Approach in the World and Evaluation of Developments, Concept of interregional competition, participation, governance and regional development links
3 European Union and Region, Council of Europe and Region, Approach to Region in International and National Legislations
4 Regional Development Models, Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), Regional Development Agencies
5 Approach to Strategic Plan Regional Plan and Strategic Planning
6 Practices of Regional Development Agencies in the World, administrative/political structures of the related country and the links of agencies to organization models
7 Approach to Region in the Turkish Administrative Structuring- Unitary Structure and Basic Principles as well as Practice and Experience of Turkey about Development Agencies
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Regional analyses based on social and human capitals and indicators of urban competition
10 Rural Development, dynamics of rural development, mountainous regions and regional development strategies, rural development policies and strategies on national scale
11 Cross-border Cooperation Studies in Turkey, Units, Relations of Foreign Sister Cities and the best examples from the world
12 Country Experience and the Best Practices about Cross-border Cooperation and Regional Development
13 Presentation of Research Papers- municipalities and regional models
14 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

-Zerrin Toprak (2003); Çevre Yönetimi ve Politikası, Birleşik Yayınları.
-National and international documents
-Yunus Emre Özer, 2010, Bölgesel Kalkınma Ajanslarının Yapılanması ve Işlevselliği, Ekin Yayınları

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To remind the topics of the previous lesson for 15 minutes.
To give a general overview on the topic of the current week.
To give a lecture accompanied by a presentation prepared using the materials provided by the basic course book and other resources.
To make control-oriented brainstorming practices during some weeks.
To support the course topics with sample event examinations.
To analyze the given case studies.
To internalize the knowledge of students through homework applications.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE STT * 0.40 + MTE * 0.60
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr. Zerrin Toprak Karaman, Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi, Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi, Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü e-mail: zerrin.toprak@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 24 24
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 119

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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